Mice are very fond of sheds and garages, especially those that are filled with stuff. Mice love stuff, it makes it very easy to hide and if the location is somewhere the owners don’t often venture into then the mice have managed to find a truly perfect home. They will burrow through boxes in search of food, which if you are a hoarder they will certainly find and they will stay there forever if not evacuated forcibly. While house mice often occupy these types of secondary structures and connected structures other types of mice frequent them as a long-term rest stop in the cold of the winter.
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They are not as tenacious as the house mouse but are far more skilled at making and finding entryways. Unlike house mice, these wild mice, deer and field mice, are amazing jumpers and climbers and can scale houses with ease and enter through the attic. This makes entering any kind of shed or garage very easily and in the winter this will generally be an issue for anyone who lives near the wild, either backing up onto a ravine or living beside a park you will be endlessly affected by rodent populations living there in the summer and then rushing into your house in the fall.
When mice get into a place they tend to chew a lot. The rodent is defined by their overly large incisors which sit at the front of their mouth and continue to grow for their lifetime and, like human hair and nails, even after the rodent is dead. This means they need to constantly grind their teeth down by chewing on very hard materials from aluminum to steel mesh and wood, electric wires which can cause a fire in your home or shed or garage. Mice can be very dangerous to your home and even more dangerous to you. They will defecate on food and all around the place, urinating as well, which can cause terrible illnesses like Hantavirus which is a severe respiratory illness that can be fatal and can be gotten from improperly cleaning mouse feces.
So how can you handle a mouse issue? You can try setting traps, maybe inspect the outside for opening and see about sealing them up. If you want to use poison make sure it is localized, you don’t want some of it getting lost under a shelf only to be found by a cat or small child. Put it in a bowl so the mice can get at it but not make a mess, though they will take it back to their nest. Mice are awful bedfellows, they eat, defecate and urinate in their nest erasing any idea that mice are clean. If you cant handle it on your own you can call a professional who will be able to resolve the issue quickly and quietly.